RIGONE DI ASIAGO JAM & HONEY RESTORATION PROJECT
Leading Italian honey and jam producer, Rigoni di Asiago, continues its project to restore “lesser known works of art that deserve to be better appreciated.” The programme, called “La Natura in Cuore di....” (Nature in the Heart of...) began in 2015 and has so far involved six art works in six different Italian cities, with the technical support of Fondaco Italia Srl, anadvisory group that gives economic support to restoration projects involving Italian art heritage.
This year, which also marks the company's Centenary, involves Naples and the enormous 2nd century AD porphyry marble basin that originally came from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome and now sits in the courtyard of the Garden of the Fountains in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN).
Previous restorations have involved Milan, with the frescos of the Jesuit Atrium in the Brera Palace (2015), Rome's Fountain of the Marriage of the Sea in the gardens of Palazzo Venezia (2018), the restoration of the crypt of the rock church of San Giovanni in Monterrone at Matera (2019), a section of the frescos in the Grand Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in Florence (2020) and the Contarini Fountain in Bergamo (2021-2022).
Rigone di Asiago is a family business, run by Andrea Rigoni. Its production plant , which is situated in the unpolluted area of the mountains of Vicenza (Veneto), specializes in organic conserves and honey.
Info: www.rigonidiasiago.it
